Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue …

Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue …

Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue …

A rational financial constitution of the EU should be able to fulfil redistributive objectives at minimum costs. The … and the pressure will increase to open new financial sources for the EU in form of a competence to issue debt and to … in Berlin on the Agenda 2000 the fundamental flaw of the system remains: the dominance of distributive objectives over …

the current EU policies and financial transfers. The paper examines the framework (Agenda 2000 and the Berlin European …One of the most debated problems of the EU enlargement to the Central and Eastern European countries is the financing … of the candidate countries. As they are much poorer and much more agricultural than the present EU members, they will be …

of the integration process and widening membership: whereas deepening requires homogeneity, widening has made the EU … arising from a single market for goods and factors. The main lesson for the Eastern enlargement(s) is that integration in its … of integration on trade and factor flows, and the empirical work carried out within those theoretical frameworks for the …

An eastern Enlargement of the EU, from an incumbent country point of view, involves a fiscal burden from extending … the one hand, and integration gains on the other. We then argue that a proper evaluation must rely on an explicit welfare … criterion, and we use a general model of economic integration in order to identify the principal channels through which …

A rational financial constitution of the EU should be able to fulfil redistributive objectives at minimum costs. The … and the pressure will increase to open new financial sources for the EU in form of a competence to issue debt and to … in Berlin on the Agenda 2000 the fundamental flaw of the system remains: the dominance of distributive objectives over …

A rational financial constitution of the EU should be able to fulfil redistributive objectives at minimum costs. The … and the pressure will increase to open new financial sources for the EU in form of a competence to issue debt and to … in Berlin on the Agenda 2000 the fundamental flaw of the system remains: the dominance of distributive objectives over …